Last season Irvine was given nine Premiership matches, if he can get through Saturday’s match following the script from Crawford Allan and Andrew Dallas he’ll be climbing the ladder with more regular matches involving Celtic.
Since returning from Japan with the Celtic first team he has had to content himself with matches against sides like Caledonian Braves, Gala Fairydean, Cowdenbeath and Berwick Rangers.
The supporters will be feeling a lot better about themselves than they did in our last game at home against St Johnstone.
No Ibrox player has ever played for England, John Souttar and Ryan Jack are expected to be named among the Scotland substitutes for tomorrow’s match.
The contemporary home kit will no doubt sell in big volumes but will never win any popularity contest although it may well have been designed to provide the maximum possible contrast with the origins kit.
Potter was reported to be getting paid close to £1m a month by l’Equipe before being sent on gardening leave after being sacked by Chelsea in April.
Giving Beale more time is only delaying the inevitable. By the time he goes, the league may be well over the horizon. The bloke was an unfathomable appointment in the first place.
That is wishful thinking, even with the toxic reaction to the defeat from Celtic, Beale won’t be resigning when he knows his future prospects are coaching under-5 squads in the bowels of some English academy.
It is difficult to imagine Brown being retrained as a digital analysist and being asked to provide the expected goals (xG) for signing targets from Ecuador.
It won’t be until Wednesday morning that Rodgers is able to assess his internationalists with a view to Saturday’s match against Dundee knowing that three days later he will be selecting a side to face Feyenoord in the opening Champions League tie.